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Mixed-gender basic training : the U.S. Army experience, 1973-2004

Title
Mixed-gender basic training : the U.S. Army experience, 1973-2004 / by Anne W. Chapman.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 197 pages).
Notes
Description based on PDF title page, viewed March 31, 2018.
Other formats
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Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 25, 2019
Series
HeinOnline legal classics library.
HeinOnline women and the law.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-183) and index.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Background. A historical overview: the American Revolution to 1973
Military, social, and political currents
The all-volunteer army and the numbers
The women's liberation movement, the ERA, and DACOWITS
Combat exclusion and the draft
Other gender-related issues
Physical strength and endurance
Pregnancy, marriage, and parenthood
Attrition and retention
Male ego, bonding, and unit cohesiveness
Emotions and aggression
Fraternization
Sexual harassment
Public opinion
The First Experiment: Basic Combat Training, 1975-1982. The experiment
Studies and experiments: the 1970s
The Fort Jackson test
Implementation of integrated training
The experience
The problems
The election of 1980 and other changes
The return of separate training
The 1981-1982 women in the army policy review
Conclusion
An Uneasy Interlude: 1982-1996. Introduction
MEPSCAT and DCPC
The 1980s controversies
The NORC surveys
Letters (DACOWITS and Weinberger)
Grenada, 1983
DACOWITS and the risk rule
More studies-GAO
ARI and recruitment
The field artillery question
Panama and operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm
The Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces
Fort Jackson, ARI, and Secretary Les Aspin
Fort Jackson and ARI revisited, 1995
The reception station and beyond
A New Challenge But Old Issues, 1996-2000. Aberdeen Proving Ground, November 1996
The Army investigates
Congress investigates
Department of Defense investigates, June-December 1997
Blair Commission
Into the Twenty-First Century. A new political era, 2001
TRADOC gender-integrated training assessment
DACOWITS and a new era
The RSTA debate
U.S. military women in Iraq
A new BCT program of instruction: warrior ethos
A new physical training program
Women and the draft
Conclusion
Selected bibliography
Abbreviations and acronyms
Index.
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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